To more effectively cope with the network public sentiment emergency involved many intervalvalued warning indexes, we present a new method of early warning index selection and weight assignment for uncertain network public sentiment emergency decision-making. By using a new interval fuzzy AHP, the interval weight of each early warning index of network public sentiment emergency can be obtained....

We have implemented a multifunctional optofluidic sensor that can monitor changes in the refractive index and pressure of biofluid simultaneously and can detect free-solution molecular interaction in situ. In this Letter, we demonstrate two major improvements of this sensor proven by both simulation and experiments. One improvement is the broader measurement range of refractive index by making ...

Nowadays the extent of productivity of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in future has a significant importance. One of the different types of calculating profitability of units is Malmq uist productivity index. All approaches presented so far calculate this index in present or past time using deterministic data. In this paper, a new approach based on DEA is presented for estimating Malmquist index ...

BACKGROUND Weaning from mechanical ventilation is influenced by patient, clinician, and organizational factors. OBJECTIVE To identify factors that may influence weaning and adoption of weaning strategies and tools, clinicians' perceptions of weaning strategies, and weaning experiences of patients and patients' families. METHOD A scoping review of indexed and nonindexed publications (1990-20...

125 words) This paper explores the effects of recent governance reforms and foreign ownership change on Japanese corporate performance. We attempt to show whether recent governance reforms are truly motivated by a new focus on improving shareholder returns, or reflect a response to institutional isomorphism. We tested the agency theory derived hypotheses and found that only the increase in fore...

BACKGROUND Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) service delivery is complex and resource-intensive. In Kenya's context there is still paucity of information on resource use vis-à-vis outputs as programs scale up. Knowledge of technical efficiency, productivity and potential sources of constraints is desirable to improve decision-making. OBJECTIVE To evaluate technical efficiency and pro...

Consumer confidence plays an important role in households' decision-making processes. This study investigates the effects of consumer confidence on household saving and borrowing behavior that are unsatisfactorily considered in previous discussions. The questions of interest are first, whether indexes of consumer confidence have any predictive power on their own for future household saving and ...

This paper studies families of social choice functions (SCF’s), i.e. a collection of social choice functions {ΦA}, where the family is indexed by the option set of choices. These (sets of) functions arise in sequential choice problems where at each stage a set of options is given to a population of voters and a choice rule must aggregate stated preferences to generate an aggregate choice. In su...

We developed a novel decision-making paradigm that allows us to apply prospect theory in behavioral economics to body mass. 67 healthy young adults completed self-report measures and two decision-making tasks for weight-loss, as well as for monetary rewards. We estimated risk-related preference and loss aversion parameters for each individual, separately for weight-loss and monetary rewards cho...

BACKGROUND Previous studies in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) have advocated the relevance of assessing the number of painful joint sites, other than the primary affected joint, in both research and clinical practice. However, it is unclear whether joint-pain comorbidities can simply be summed up. METHODS A total of 401 patients with hip or knee OA completed questionnaires on ...